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Nukutipipi — Continued 



Platform lagoon at, 128 



Steejj sea face slope of, 128 



Vegetation of, 125 

 Nurakita, 210 



Approaches to, 211 



Dimensions of, 210 



Secondary fringing reef of, 21 1 



Sink of, 211 



Soundings off, 278 



Ofolanga, 197 

 Ohonua, 185 

 Olimarao, 364 

 Onevai, 189 

 Onevao, 189 

 Onoatoa, 236 



Absence of western rim of, 237 

 Onoupe Island, 364 

 Onumak Island, 301 

 Oosima, 365 

 Oraluk, 364 



Eleyated limestone at, 342 



Narrowest land rim of, 364 

 Orohena, 149 

 Orote Peninsula, 370 

 Oto, 198 

 Otungake, 198 

 Oua, 195 

 Outline of, 



Carolines, 277 



Elliee Islands, 277 



Fiji, 277 



Gilbert Islands, 277 



Marshall Islands, 277 



Paumotu Islands, 277 



Paanopa, 233 

 Pachiai, 350 

 Paea, 142 

 Pahia, 163 

 Paipai Pass, 159 

 Pakaka Entrance, 68 



Bottom of, 69 

 Pakin, 351 

 Panemur, 350 

 Pangai, 198 

 Paoi, 45 



Papara reef flats, 147 

 Papawa Harbor, 153 

 Papenu River, 149 

 Papiete, 150, 152 



Algse at, 151 



Barrier reef at, 150, 151 



" Cliallenger " at, 150 



Papiete — Continued 

 Corallines at, 151 

 Corals at, 151 

 Echinoderms at, 152 

 Lagoon slope at, 152 

 Kange of corals at, 151 

 Slope of reef flat at, 151 

 Pari Bay, 159 

 Paumotu Archipelago, 7 



Absence of Alcyonarians in, 29 

 Area of elevation of, 29 

 Atolls rising from moderate depths in, 28 

 Birds of, 31 



Canoe and native of, 119 

 Character of corals of,' 29 

 Crustacea of, 31 

 Deepest sounding in, 28 

 Depth of lagoons of, 23 

 Development of NuUipores at, 30 

 Dished islands of, 24 

 Echinoderms of, 30 



Elevated coralliferous limestone islands of, 20 

 Elevation of western islands of, 18 

 Flat-topped islands of, 24 

 Formation of land rim of, 21 

 French Hydrographic Charts of, 11 

 Islands of accretion in, 17 

 Lagoons shut off from sea in, 23 

 Land rims of, 15, 21 

 Lines of upheaval of, 27 

 Paucity of marine animals in, 31 

 Pearl oysters, age of, at, 30 

 Pearl oj-sters, reproduction of, in, 30 

 Reef flat pudding-stone in, 21 

 Secondary lagoons of, 22 

 Shells in mud of lagoons of, 63 

 Shoals, ledges, and islands in lagoons of, 22 

 Small atolls of, 1 9, 23 

 Small size of Tridacnas of, 30 

 Surface hauls in, 31 

 Surveys of, 1 2 



Transportation of cocoanuts in, 32 

 Trend of islands of, 27 

 Vegetation of, 7, 31 

 Western islands of, 1 8 

 Western plateau of, 19 

 Wind follows trend of islands in,- 22 

 Paumotu Plateau, 25 

 Soundings on, 25 

 Pau Point, 162 

 Pava, 221 



Peacock Anchorage, 237 

 Periadik, 355 



Permanence of Pacific Ocean, 228 

 Phaeton Harbor, 144, 147 

 Pikelot, 364 



